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Street Farbrengen Episode # 140: A Dead Ram's Horn that Runs The Universe Makes no Sense!!
Are Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and the days in between about becoming worthy? Isn't this what "better through regret" means?
In this post-Rosh Hashanah farbrengen, Reuven and Zacharia wrestle with a radical idea: creation itself doesn't have a reason. Blowing the shofar, which changes everything, makes no sense — it is a gezeiras hakasuv, a decree. Don't explain it, understand it, or find meaning in it — simply accept the no rhyme or reason. Why? This begins our relationship with Hashem. As such if there's no reason for creation, value and worth have no place.
From the first day of Rosh…
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